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Definition of Elaterin
1. Noun. An extract from the the juice of the fruit of ''Ecballium elaterium'' (the squirting cucumber), used as a purgative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elaterin
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elaterin
Literary usage of Elaterin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein, Jerome Henry Salisbury (1915)
"One hundred of these cucumbers yield only a gram (15 grains) of elaterin, and it
takes about eighty pounds of them to produce thirty grams (an ounce). ..."
2. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"Wash with a small quantity of ether, and recrystallize the pure elaterin from
chloroform ... Good elaterium should yield from 20 to 25 per cent of elaterin. ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"elaterin is one of the most powerful cathartics, sometimes used in uremia. ...
The toxic dose of Colocynth is 0.6 to i Gm. ; fatal, 4 Gm. Of elaterin, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"elaterin. A substance contained in the fruit of the ... elaterin is precipitated
from its alcoholic solution by acetate of lead and nitrate of silver. ..."
5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1866)
"... dissolved in alcohol, and crystallised by adding water till cloudiness is
produced, and leaving it at rest. b. Preparation uf Hydro-elaterin ami ..."
6. Materia Medica and Therapeutics for Physicians and Students by John Barclay Biddle, Clement Biddle (1895)
"elaterin (C^H^C^) is a NEUTRAL PRINCIPLE extracted from elaterium, ... Elaterium
yields its virtues to alcohol, and not to water. elaterin ..."
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